Mesopotamia

Today we continued our conversation from yesterday. We learned today, that in Mesopotamia, cities and towns were founded with as many as 40,000 inhabitants. There was better food storage, which allowed for diversity in professions. During this time, kings emerged so id family dynasties. Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing, known as cuneiform. A pantheon of Sumerian god and goddess emerged with many of the deities representing the natural elements of the world. We also learned that Sumerians first divided the hour into sixty minutes and the minutes into sixty seconds. The ziggurat was a Sumerian temple on top of a "mountain" of earth. In the civilization of Mesopotamia, Wandering nomads drove herbs of domesticated animals in many areas, especially to the south of Sumer in Arabia. And King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws that included "an eye for an eye" and regulations of marriage, divorce and punishments. At the end of class we google different laws for Hammurabi and told the strangest ones we found in front of the class.